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LOGISTIC INDUSTRIES * Brazil - Focuses on Amazon region's
Potentially a global manufacturing base
Manaus,Amazonas,Brazil -Transport Intelligence (UK) -5 Sep 2008: -- Much of Brazil's recent trade growth has been driven by the worldwide boom in demand for agricultural and mineral commodities. Now, though, the international logistics industry is also paying increasing attention to the development of global manufacturing activities in the Amazon region... Set up by the Brazilian government in the 1960s as that country's first free trade zone, it is now a major assembly base for a wide range of products. But why the apparent recent expansion of international logistics industry interest in a facility which has been in existence for nearly 40 years?... 
One insight was provided by Japanese global forwarder Yusen Air & Sea Service when it commented on the opening of its own office in Manaus at the end of last year... TAM Cargo, the freight unit of Brazilian airline TAM Linhas Aereas, which announced last month that it had just inaugurated a large cargo terminal in that Amazonian centre ... A few days later, Japanese global container shipping operator Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ('K' Line) reported that it planned to launch a new feeder service between the US east coast and Manaus from October... Manaus is set to attract further international attention later this month with the holding there of the latest bi-annual Amazon International Fair, September 10-13, which will be looking to attract more investors in the region... (Photo above: Center of Manaus - Photo below: Port of Manaus)Labels: transport and logistics news
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